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CBS Frets: ‘Constitutional Crisis’ in Fight Over Trump Travel Ban
The journalists at CBS This Morning on Monday hyperventilated over conflicting rulings on Donald Trump’s travel ban, insisting that it’s a brewing “constitutional crisis.” At first, legal expert Rikki Klieman simply explained the normal process the travel ban would follow through the courts: “Whoever is going to lose here, whichever side, you could have the three-judge panel deciding one way or…
NYT’s Rutenberg Giddy Over Fake Massacre Meme as End of Fake News
New York Times media columnist Jim Rutenberg took his standard place on the front of Business Day, hyperventilating this time about the pushback to Kellyanne Conway’s comment about the “Bowling Green massacre” being a turning point in the battle against “fake news.” The headline wasn’t subtle: “The Massacre That Wasn’t: A ‘Fake News’ Turning Point.” The text box cheered: “The internet acted…
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Today Show Panel Applauds Super Bowl Ads Pushing Liberal Agenda
On Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer and substitute co-host Maria Shriver led a panel discussion reviewing some of Sunday night’s Super Bowl commercials and gushed over the “social awareness” of ads that pushed liberal agenda items like environmental activism, equal pay, and illegal immigration.
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Pants on Fire: Mitchell Says GOPers ‘Never’ Gave Garland 'A Meeting'
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell perpetuated a glaring lie that not a single Republican Senator met with Obama Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland (when at least 16 met with him) in order to predict that the GOP should not underestimate the opposition aimed at Trump pick Neil Gorsuch.
Ellen Uses ‘Finding Dory’ to Slam President Trump's Immigration Plan
Ellen DeGeneres likes to say she doesn’t “get political” when it comes to her daytime talk show, but you’d never know it considering her show has been used as a platform for Democrats and their agenda over the years.
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ABC: Founders Would Support Federal Judge's 'Check' on Trump Over Ban
On Monday’s Good Morning America, ABC analyst Matthew Dowd blasted Donald Trump for criticizing the federal judge who blocked his executive immigration order. Playing off of the New England Patriots’ win last night, Dowd said the true “patriots” were the ones standing up to President Trump.
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MSNBC Mocks Pence Anti-Slavery Tweet, Chicago 'Massive Success Story'
Saturday's AM Joy on MSNBC displayed how the Left can interpret racism or racial insensitivity into anything as host Joy Reid not only mocked President Donald Trump's words of praise for iconic anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass, but even treated it as somehow inappropriate for Vice President Mike Pence to send out a tweet on February 1 commemorating President Abraham Lincoln signing onto…
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CBS's Dickerson Grossly Understates Odds of Terror Attack by Refugees
When CNN and the Washington Post began publicizing a study by the libertarian CATO Institute that portrayed terrorism by refugees as a remote danger to Americans, it was predictable that some would start misquoting the findings, making it sound like an even more remote possibility than the study actually claimed.
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GMA Whines Halftime Show Wasn't 'Political' or 'Provocative'
Monday on Good Morning America, ABC entertainment contributor Larry Hackett appeared to give his take on the Super Bowl's halftime show with Lady Gaga. Hackett whined that Gaga’s performance wasn’t political, admitting he was disappointed she didn’t do anything “incredibly provocative” during the show.
Documenting TV's Double Standard on Supreme Court Nominees
An MRC analysis of labels used on ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news shows during the 24 hours after each of the past six Supreme Court nominations demonstrates the pattern. GOP nominees John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch were labeled by reporters as “conservative” a total of 36 times, while Democratic nominees Sonya Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Merrick Garland were called “…
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CNN Slams Conway 'Lie,' Fails to Retract Muslim Ban Death Hoax
On Friday's CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, on her final day doing the show, host Costello charged that Kellyanne Conway was telling a "lie" when the Donald Trump advisor initially mis-stated on the day before that a terrorist attack had occurred in Bowling Green, Kentucky, several years ago. But Costello's CNN show has so far not corrected CNN political commentator Errol Louis's debunked…
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Media Critic Warns Stelter: Stop Being 'Ridiculous' in Vilifying Trump
Don't hold your breath awaiting Michael Wolff's next appearance on CNN. Then again, perhaps CNN keeps inviting Wolff because they've learned he's good for ratings. Here's one viewer who is definitely tuning in next time I know he'll be on. Shortly after Donald Trump's stunning victory in November, Wolff took fellow journalists to task for their collective fake outrage after Trump ditched them to…
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Unhappy: Smiley Whines that Media Rushed to ‘Normalize’ ‘Racist’ Trump
The media’s relentless beating of the two-week-old Donald Trump administration could hardly be seen as beneficial to him, but PBS’s Tavis Smiley tried to argue that on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “What troubles me, Chuck, is that we -- too many of us that is -- rushed to normalize a racist, sexist, classist campaign that he ran to win this office,” Smiley whined as he smeared the president…
Ted Koppel Slams Team Trump for Broadening the Press Corps
The Washington Post expressed its unhappiness with democratizing the press briefings on Sunday with an op-ed by former ABC News star Ted Koppel – to liberals a symbol of “mainstream” media objectivity, and to conservatives a poster boy for liberal media arrogance and denial.
Under the preachy headline “Democracy depends on the facts,” Koppel began with an anecdote from the Nixon years when Roger…
